118 George Dahl, 



Al-Kunaisah^ (the Little Church), a mound a few miles north of 

 *Athllt^ This would fit the proportional distance given by Ben- 

 jamin. William of Tyre" makes a clear distinction between the 

 maritime cities of Capernaum and Dor. Conder's identification of 

 the two is in any case absurd*. 



The "house of the narrow ways'" is probably near 'Athllt^ The 

 name arose from the rock-cut passages through the coast ridge ; of 

 these there are several between 'Athlit and Dor'. The harbor at 

 'Athlit would have made possible the landing of provisions. This 

 identification is to be preferred to that of Conder, who wishes to 

 identify the Casal (as well as Capernaum) with Dor. It is hardly 

 probable that the heavily armored soldiers would have attempted 

 to make the march of twenty miles to Dor in one day; more likely 

 they encamped at *Athlit. 



Concerning the location of the next place mentioned, viz. Merla 

 (or Mirla or Merle), there is considerable doubt. If our identifica- 

 tions thus far have been correct, it must lie somewhere between 

 *Athlit and Caesarea, the town next in order. The narrative here 

 does not make clear whether it was on the coast or inland on the 

 main road. Elsewhere, a Merle is spoken of as a fortress belong- 

 ing to the Templars*. Among the fortresses of Palestine captured 

 by Saladin after his defeat of King Guy, July 6, 1187, are included 

 Castellum Merle Templi and Castellum de Planis^ Bohaeddin in 

 his account of this march along the coast'" gives the name as El- 



^ Or, Tell Kanlsah. See especially DeGoeje's note in his edition of Mokad- 

 dasi, Bibl. Geogr. Arab. Ill, p. 192, note m. 



2 Guy le Strange, Pal. under the Moslems, p. 477; Adler, op. cit., pp. 31, 

 32; Recueil, Hist. Occident., I, Part I, p. LIV. 



3 Above, p. 115: " inter Capharnaum et Doram, oppida maritima." 



4 T. A. Archer, Crusade of Richard I, p. 376 (note F.). 



5 P. 116. 



* Archer, I.e.; Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (Rolls Series) p. 255; Recueil, 

 Hist. Occident., I, Part I, pp. XXVI, LIV. 



^ Conder, P.E.F., Spec. Papers, p. 275: above p. 13. 



8 W. Stubbs, Hist. Introd. to the Rolls Series (ed. Hassell), p. 329.— In 

 the Pelrinages et Pardouns de Acre of the 13th or 14th cent. (Michelant et 

 Reynaud, Itineraires a Jerusalem, p. 229), it is stated of " Chastiel Pelryn:" 

 '* e de pres est Merle." 



9 Chronicle of the Reigns of Henry II and Richard I, by Benedict of 

 Peterborough (Rolls Series), II, p. 23. 



^0 Recueil, Hist. Orient., Ill, pp. 246, 248; Itinerarium Regis Ricardi {Bx)Ub 

 Series), p. 255; Wilken, Geschichte der KreuzziXge, IV, p. 407. 



